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A Developmental Pediatrician.Who diagnose your child? What type or Dr etc
 Sorry to ask all these questions but looking for answers.
A pediatric psychologist.

A "TEAM"  The head of the team was a child psychologist.  It was a center that specialized in diagnosing Autism and Autism spectrum disorders.

Edited to add that before going to this center We had been seen by a reg pediatrician, child psychologist, and a developmental pediatrician and none of which was experienced enough or seen Autism enough to give me any real answers.  It wasnt' until I went to a center that specialized in the disorder that we got the diagnosis

Karrie

karjab3039302.7070717593For my oldest it was a developmental pediatrician, then neurologist, and pyschologist gave confirming diagnosis.  For my youngest it was an autism developmental team which included an OT, ST, PT, Social Worker, and Psychologist.  No dr.'s we still have to wait and see a developmental pediatrician because the neurologist has said he won't touch the developmental delay issue and will only see him for his seizures.  a team, psychologist, developmental ped, OT, Speech therapist. autism
Consultant.We are scheduled to go to the Univ of Iowa in Iowa City to get a medical dx. This is a 6 hour testing. We see a Ped Neuro, Ped Psch, developmental ped, Speech Therapist. All of them specialize in Autism. I will post the DX next Friday. I have read alot about the testing and they want med records from everyone who has treated our son and also the play therapist who treats him as well. Hopefully they can help us and tell us what is wrong with our son. Hope this helps. ped. nuerologist and were going to be seeing a specialist in autism a developmental ped. next week at child study center in st. josephs hospital in phoenix. first suggested by first steps confirmed by autism team lead by pediatric neurologist

pediatrican, neurologist, dev. pediatrician, school psychologist....

If I had to do over I would go to a developmental pediatrician..ours did a 3 hour eval. and was an expert in autism and gave us a full written report 2 pages long for us to have for our records:)

Good luck!

pediatric psychologist who is the director of an autism center

We first starting hearing whispers about it when ECI did their evaluation for eligibility for services, they recommended developmental pediatrician, who we went to see when my son was 2 1/2 and she was reluctant to give a formal diagnosis before 3 (she indicated they typically won't diagnose until 3, unless it's a clear cut, severe case...but sounds like maybe hooey after reading some of the posts on here), and then eventually the diagnostician from the school district gave us PDD-NOS at age 3 when he was being evaluated for services from the school, so we've yet to go back to the developmental pediatrician...he's now 4 1/2 and has made great progress and many of the behaviors have lessened or are more manageable

This brings me to a question of my own...during the last review for updated IEP (several months ago) I asked when we would be doing another evaluation/reassessment to update/confirm diagnosis...they indicated that they diagnosis wasn't as important as matching services to the determined needs...I'm just wondering if I was off base by asking that?...is it just me who needs a label/diagnosis for my own reasons, or is the formal dx an integral part of treatment? 

Even after everything I have been through, I feel so clueless about some of this compared to many of the other "veterans" on this site 

Since that time---we have a neuropsychologist who has gotten to know him for 4 years now(weekly appts, then every 2 weeks, monthly now) And a child psychiatrist(since 5y) who helps dx kids at the autism center(not the one we went to at 3y!!!) So----between our psych---who works closely with our psychiatrist-----our psychiatrist was the one dxing---finally.

Nueropsychologist, and the SD's multidisciplinary team verified the dx.  That team was a developmental pediatrician, speech therapist, physical and occupational therapists, an audiologist, and a psychologist.
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